This Week

Andrew Neil be will be joined Ed Balls and Michael Portillo on the This Week sofa, before James Delingpole gives his take take on the Tories, with fears about them not having proper solutions, and claims about cracks to come, and those already showing.

There will be a round-up from Miranda Green, before Natalie Bennett for the Greens and Lib Dem Polly McKenzie join in the debate.

They will end with the actor, rapper and comedian Doc Brown looking at aspiration in the spotlight section. They will be live at 23:45 BST, on BBC One, straight after Question Time.

What can we say about the impact of the Conservative plans for social care?

Donations to political parties in the first official week of campaigning are published.

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbynhas issued a statement in response to the launch of the Conservative manifesto.

Mr Corbyn, who appeared on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show, said Theresa May's manifesto has "betrayed" "millions of pensioners".

"She is hitting older people with a classic Nasty Party triple whammy," he says, echoing Mrs May's famous phrase.

"Scrapping the triple lock on pensions, removing the Winter Fuel Allowance and forcing those who need social care to pay for it with their homes.

"The Conservatives’ record is one of broken promises and failure. They promised to raise living standards, but working families are set to be on average over £1,400 a year worse off.

"They promised to improve all standards of NHS care, but A&Es are in crisis. They promised to protect school spending, but schools are facing crippling cuts and class sizes are soaring. You can’t trust a word Theresa May says."

Danny Shaw
BBC Home Affairs Correspondent

Although the pace of police reform may have slowed since Theresa May's first few years as home secretary, there are still some battles she's keen to fight, notably on what the manifesto says is the "assault on injustice".

But the Tories' veiled threat to legislate to ensure police carry out more targeted and effective stop and searches will concern forces that have already dramatically scaled back the number of stops.

At a time when knife crime is on the increase, many officers believe more use of stop and search is what's needed.

Strangely, for a party that's resisted calls to merge some of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, there's a proposal to combine three constabularies whose geographical reach is far wider.

Don't be surprised if the plan to merge the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the Ministry of Defence Police and British Transport Police proves to be rather trickier than it sounds.

As for prisons, much of what's already been proposed - building new jails and strengthening inspection powers - will continue if the Conservatives are re-elected, but there's also a commitment to reform the entry requirements, training and management of prison staff, a reflection perhaps that the problems in jails are about more than just the number of staff.

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Straight off the back of her manifesto launch and with just a change of shoes, Theresa May is back on the campaign trail, visiting a missile manufacturer in Bolton.

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Laura Kuenssberg breaks down the Conservative's plans.

In ajoint statement, UK aid organisations including Oxfam, Save the Children and Comic Relief, welcomed a commitment in the Conservative manifesto to continue spending 0.7% of GDP of UK GDP on international aid.

"Keeping this promise is the right thing to do," they say, adding:

Pensions experts say Conservative plans to reduce the generosity of the state pension are a risk.

The group representing company directors has joined other business lobby groups in welcoming a review of business rates, but has expressed disappointment at the Conservatives' policies on migration.

The Institute of Directors also welcomes a "commitment to keeping corporation tax down" but director Stephen Martin adds that, with measures "such as greater powers to pause mergers and annual votes for shareholders on executive pay, businesses will worry that interventions will disrupt the normal flow of commerce".

Mr Martin said: "The manifesto states that the party does not believe in ‘untrammelled free markets’, but they must also recognise that governments have limitations."

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A new fund to replace EU economic aid will be created by the Conservatives if they win the general election.

West Wales and the Valleys qualify for more than £2bn in EU aid between 2014 and 2020, due to low levels of wealth.

But the money - which has been paid ever since 2000 - will come to an end once the UK leaves the European Union.

The Conservatives' manifesto says the party aims to create a "Shared Prosperity Fund", with Welsh ministers to be consulted on the details.

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The Conservatives have not provided costings for their manifesto.

However, we've identified some policies which will cost and others which will save and/or potentially create revenue.

Those that will cost:

• £8bn a year extra for the NHS in England by 2022-23
• An increase in the overall schools budget by £4bn by 2022 in England
• Free breakfast for all primary pupils
• One year holiday on Nationaly Insurance contributions for companies employing ex-services personnel
• Cutting immigration is also expected to lead to need for higher borrowing according to OBR forecasts

Those that will save/create revenue:

• Replacing the pensions triple lock with double lock after 2020
• No repeat of the commitment not to raise National Insurance
• Many more people who receive care in their home will have to pay
• Scapping universal free school lunches
• Tripling the health surcharge for migrant workers and international students
• Doubling the the Immigration Skills Charge on companies employing migrant workers
• Means-testing winter fuel payments
• And finally, more action against tax evasion

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

Ex-pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann acknowledge on Radio 4's World at One that the government was trying to do something "radical to address social care" but she has reservations about whether or not it is sustainable.

Reality Check

The claim: Prime Minister Theresa May said that the Conservatives had, over the past seven years, cut the nation's deficit as a share of GDP by almost three-quarters.

Reality Check verdict: The amount being borrowed each year has been reduced from 9.9% of GDP when the coalition government took power in 2010 to 2.6% of GDP in 2016 under the Conservative government, a reduction of almost three-quarters. But while the amount being borrowed each year has been falling, the overall debt is still rising.

Read more about the debt and deficit from Reality Check here.

Tory manifesto says no independence referendum unless there is "public consent" for it to happen.

Hugh Pym
BBC News Health Editor

One health headline from the Conservative manifesto is "£8 billion more for the NHS".

As always with public spending figures there’s a need to dig into the detail beneath the headline to work exactly what it means.

Party sources say there would be £8bn more spent on the NHS in England in 2022/23 than in the current financial year 2017/18.

The £8bn figure bandied about at the time of the last election was the increase between 2015/16 and 2020/21. Today’s announcement amounted to a rolling programme of annual spending increases rather than an immediate hike.

They imply slightly more in the next couple of years than had been previously pledged to the NHS and allow the Conservatives to say that spending per person will not fall (as had previously been thought).

The spending rises would be funded, party sources say, through economic growth with no specific tax hikes planned.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats are planning larger annual increases with tax rises identified to pay for them.